UTF-8 Database Problem

Question

I\'ve a MySQL table that has a UTF-8 charset and upon attempting to insert to it via a PHP form, the database gives the following error:

PDOStatement:

Answer 1

Before passing the value to Mysql you can use the following code:

$val = mb_check_encoding($val, 'UTF-8') ? $val : utf8_encode($val);

convert the string the to UTF-8, If it's matter of only one field.